Provide persistent skip-lock option

I’m always frustrated when pipenv wants to lock things. This happens when I install and uninstall things. The problem is that it takes FOREVER to lock big scientific packages (that probably include sample data).

I would like to be able to specify completely skipping the locking process within the Pipfile itself.

I’ve tried to specify --skip-lock in many commands that support it, but some commands simply don’t support it. Additionally, if I forget to specify --skip-lock then I have to force quit the program and hope that it maintains a usable state.

[hmaarrfk]

Pipfile essentially become requirements.txt in this situation.

Pipenv gives you the virtual environment management. Quite nice IMO.

[pauloromeira]

+1 for having that option inside Pipenv.

[[source]]
url = "https://pypi.python.org/simple"
verify_ssl = true
skip_lock = true
...

It could have both options because some projects doesn’t need locking and you don’t usually track .env files. Other than that, env vars are only useful when you already have isolated environments outside pipenv, otherwise is just simpler to pass skip-lock as an argument.